Month: October 2017

Welp, some sales have been picked up now for the Xbox 360, and there is some BC stuff mostly in the form of Cabela’s and Mass Effect 2/3 DLC.  Nothing too exciting but if you have been itching for more Mass Effect, then here you go.  Enjoy.

Welp, I did it.  I finished Valkyria Revolution.  100% and all that jazz.  According to TruAchievements, I was the 50th person to do so.  Well on that site anyway, I’m sure there were others who never bother with that site.  But it’s done, and that’s that.  I did not start any new games this week, but I did go back to an old favorite, Ziggurat.  And guess what?  I finally beat all 5 floors.  After 30 freaking tries, I finally beat it.  I promptly died the next 10 tries (I was screwing around honestly)…but I made it happen.  Also got some of the other achievements too.  I’ll probably keep playing it until I reach a couple of milestones (5,000 kills, 50 deaths) and then put it down for another six months.  It’s a perfect palette cleanser.

I would love to bring you some 360 sales this week, but there isn’t any. Just Xbox One sales at this current point in time.  If I was going to recommend any Xbox One sales, I’d probably say Divinity and Dangerous Golf.  Dangerous Golf I’ve spoke of before, but it got a lot better with patches and is worth playing start to finish.  I stuck with it through all of the floating obstacles, stuck balls and graphic collision and came out loving it once it came together.  Now people who buy it can just enjoy what the game has become rather than how it got there.  Anyway, I’ll update this column once we get some 360 sales.  Enjoy your week.

F’ing Finally.  That’s all I have to say.  Fable freaking Anniversary.  This has been on my top 5 for quite sometime.  Fable II will still be my favorite when it comes to this genre, but the first one does come pretty darn close.  Speaking of Fable II, Pub Games is a nice little companion piece.  It was originally distributed with pre-orders of the game (which is where i picked it up) but is worth playing if you never messed with Fable II before.  Besides it gives you goodies that you can use in the main game (always useful).  Anyway, it’s a great day and Anniversary might just be cracked open this weekend.  Enjoy.

• Fable Anniversary $39.99 (much cheaper on disc)
• Fable II Pub Games $9.99 (I would say wait for a sale, but I don’t think it’s ever had one)

Welp, I finally got the alchemic weapons achievement in Valkyria Revolution.  All 12 freaking characters maxed out.  Now on to the two last achievements, secondary weapons maxed out and spending 300,000 at the shops.  I currently have a smidgen over 200,000 from doing all of these missions.  I figure I’m about 10-15k from getting the secondary weapons and at max, about 50k away from having enough to spend at the shops.  This game does not put you down the path towards spending a lot at the shops but I figure that to this point I’ve spent close to 50k.  And for those doing the math, yes when I get done with secondary weapons, I will not be saving the game, just letting the achievement pop and reload my previous save so I can keep my money.  No way in heck I’m grinding double the amount I need.

In a semi-BC related moment…the remasters of the first 2 Batman 360 games or what is known as Return to Arkham for the X1 and PS4 are $19.99 for a physical copy this week at Best Buy.  Amazon might price match, but no guarantee.  I have my copy reserved at one BB here.  Unlike a lot of remasters, this one is supposedly quite worth it.  Anyway, we got sales. This week we got a lot of Lego and a lot of Bioshock & Borderlands.  That pretty much sums it up.  As far as things I might be interested in, on the X1 side, I’m looking at Lego SW: Force Awakens which is $7.50 for the deluxe, $5 for the vanilla and then on 360 side, I am tempted by the Borderlands 2 Season Pass since I have the game in digital and mess with it all the time (but I’ll probably just save my money for a physical copy of the Triple Pack).  We’ll see, just maybe we’ll get some new Lego games in BC this week.  Enjoy.